UC Berkeley rioted last week. They will not be the only ones. The CSU system students are planning to protest in front of the state capitol building in 2 days, on March 4. They were marching around the CSU Sacramento campus today as a warm-up exercise, chanting and shouting through bullhorns. I can understand why they are upset, even if I am undecided whether I will join them. Fees are up almost 50 percent since I first started attending in 2008, and I've heard another 10 pct rise is on the way for fall. That is assuming the mandatory furlough days for the professors continue through next year. If that is all we have to pay, we will be very lucky. The state is flat broke, tax revenues are down by 25-35 pct, we can't even raise money in the commercial paper markets to cover every-day expenses, and there is a rumor that somebody in the legislature actually wondered if the state should spin off both the UC and CSU university systems into private hands. If that happens, I would expect tuition to increase 500 pct, not just 10 pct. We are still cheaper than a lot of other state universities, which don't get the subsidies that California universities get. Or, rather, USED to get. Meanwhile, is anybody protesting against the big salaries and "perks" the university regents keep pulling in? Betcha there is enough corruption there to put a reporter in the running for a Pulitzer prize. Seems the universities are like the other K-12 education systems - the administrators get fat off of their money and the teachers and students get the crumbs left over.

Wow, whiney kids who need to get a job instead of crying that someone else should pay for them.

The increase in many college tuitions, both public and private, has been extreme over the last 5-10 years. I'm sure, as the above commenter noted, there's waste and fraud at work, too. However, if rising student cost is the concern, why would any protesters believe the smart way to counter a lack of public funding is trashing facilities that only cost more unavailable money to repair? Way to have a tantrum and show that you don't value the taxpayers' existing investments or the institution any more than the people you're protesting against. If you're mad that your low-cost, subsidized state school's gotten more expensive, the answer isn't proving how little you appreciate it through vandalism. That's the definition of the entitlement attitude.

People that wedge themselves into a revenue stream while contributing NOTHING to the reason for the revenue stream are the ticks attached to the vein of societal wealth. Think: education administrators = insurance company executive. The former does not educate students and the latter cures no illness yet we pay BILLIONS to both. Don't we have a means of eradicating the ticks from our society?

Heh. No more gravy train. No more free lunch. Cali is bankrupt. Juvenile tantrums won't change it. You're not jacking mommy around anymore, punks, this time it is for real. Get a job.

More mature behavior by spoiled brats of the Progressive mindset. CA is broke. Deal with it.

The protests should be directly aimed at the faculty and not the buildings, which cost every student the ability to attend and could well raise tuition fees further to pay for damage repair. Protests should also be aimed at state politicians who've allowed the salaries and perks at the students' and... tax payers' expense. I wonder how many students are Democrats? ...and self-centered.

Instead of rioting, these students should blame their parents (and possibly themselves) for voting for the politicians who bankrupted the state in the first place. Take this as an object lesson on the true costs of a comprehensive welfare state and start voting for fiscally responsible candidates.

What was the chant... "Give us our entitlements now!" "We're liberal, we don't have to work for our money!"

Wow. That's the type of mature behavior that makes me WANT to give more of my tax money. NOT!

Hmmm... Burn stuff and riot. Is that going to get the taxpayers to provide more subsidies?

Yep. That will bring down the cost of running the university...

"spin off both the UC and CSU university systems into private hands. If that happens, I would expect tuition to increase 500 pct" To be educated, I am sorry you are very ignorant or I suspect very young. Colleges and Universities became "Teacher Welfare" back in the late 60s. With the government entering the picture to provide cheap loans and subsidies to Colleges and Universities any capitalistic pressure to keep costs down evaporated. They had a gravy train of easy money (sound familiar...housing bubble?) and with that come inflation. add on top of that no accountability pay the teachers and you get the perfect storm of out of control cost. If the Colleges and Universities went private and government subsides were removed the cost would go down. But it will never happen, at least not until pretty much everything else collapses, which will happen...

And they want us to give them more money?

People for years have laughed at California's nutcases - they make them heroes out there. This does not surprise me. It is nothing different than what educrats have allowed for years - even exalted. Don't feign disbelieve America!!! We have laughed for years at these clowns - these arrogant BS merchants. Don't laugh. This is your child soon.

I notice the article doesn't mention the annual cost of attending these colleges before and after the tuition and fee hikes. As the parent of two college kids at a state university which costs 20K per kid per year, in a state with a very low cost of living, I'm willing to bet these kids aren't paying anywhere near that thanks to California's entitlement programs. These kids probably have no concept of life beyond subsidized living. To top it all off, they probably worked very hard supporting politicians whose irresponsible fiscal policies are directly responsible for the financial mess the state of California is facing. Another generaion of "it's all about me." Eventually everyone is victimized by socialism.

Ah yes. The whiney entitlement generation. They're probably the same libRETARDS that want sanctuary and entitlements for illegals, free healthcare, miranda rights for terrorists, etc. etc. etc.. One thing these clowns never do is ask the question "who is going to pay for all that?". California, the once great state and pride of America. Now the entitlement state and GOING BROKE. Home of pelosi, boxer, waxman, sherman, stark, et. al. You reap what you sow. Now wake up and face REALITY!

Compare this to the Tea Party protests. This is what liberals do when they "protest."

Wow!!! See what happens when you cut back on the koolaide.